Professional poker player Phil Galfond is asking just under $4 million for his duplex penthouse apartment, which has a sculptural steel slide connecting the two floors, in Manhattan’s East Village.
The 27‐year‐old online poker player bought two identical, two‐bedroom units in a new East Village development in 2008 for $3.2 million, then combined them into a modern space with two bedrooms (convertible to four) and four baths. A private elevator opens into the roughly 2,500 square‐foot apartment, which has an 18‐foot atrium and a game room. The slide connects the office with a wet bar on the upper level to the floor below (there’s also a staircase). The apartment also has a private roof deck and two terraces. The building has a rooftop pool.
Mr. Galfond has moved to Vancouver to play poker online following the crackdown the U.S. Justice Department began in April on several major online poker companies. “It just doesn’t make sense for me to hold onto [the apartment]” given the uncertainty about when online poker playing might be allowed to resume in the U.S., he says.
Elizabeth Kee and Lindsee Silverstein of CORE share the listing.